THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                            (Tokyo, Japan)
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For Immediate Release                                  November 20, 1998

STATEMENT BY SPECIAL COUNSEL GREGORY CRAIG

The Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C.

November 19, 1998

1:40 PM EST

MR. CRAIG: There was virtually nothing new in the proceeding today. There was nothing new in the unfairness of the process as we saw in the party line vote to limit the President's Counsel to only 30 minutes in his questioning of Mr. Starr. The process remains bitterly partisan and, in our view, profoundly unfair to the President. And there was nothing new in Mr. Starr's two-hour presentation. He offered no new evidence, no new information, no new explanation for his tactics. The only new thing that he offered is finally and belatedly he cleared the President and the First Lady with respect to two of his investigations. This should have been done many, many months ago, if not years ago, but we're grateful to learn of the news today.

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